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The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics was designed to give an overview of the main methodological, analytical, and practical implications of the Austrian School of Economics. This intellectual tradition in economics and political economy has a long history that dates back to Carl Menger in the late 19th century. The various contributions discussed in this book all reflect this tension of an orthodox argumentative structure (rational choice and invisible hand) to address heterodox problem situations (uncertainty, differential knowledge, ceaseless change). The Austrian economists from the founders to today seek to derive the invisible hand theorem from the rational choice postulate via institutional analysis in a persistent and consistent manner.

First published in 1986, this book presents a reissue of the first detailed confrontation between the Austrian school of economics and Austrian philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Brentano school. It contains a study of the roots of Austrian economics in the liberal political theory of the nineteenth-century Hapsburg empire, and a study of the relations between the general theory of value underlying Austrian economics and the new economic approach to human behaviour propounded by Gary Becker and others in Chicago. In addition, it considers the connections between Austrian methodology

This volume considers what the future might hold for the Austrian tradition of economics. This includes the areas that seem most promising for new research. Instead of criticizing other positions from the standpoint of Austrian analysis, the book turns a critical eye on the Austrian program itself -- where its weak points are, and how important they are in an overall assessment of the Austrian position. The book successfully criticizes many topics related to the Austrian school of thought. Starting with the historical and methodological issues, it examines subjectivism, market coordination, institutions, political economy and evolutionary theory. It concludes with an Afterword by Mario Rizzo and Larry White, which both appraises the contents and assesses the approaches propounded in the volume

An evaluation of environmental life cycle assessment / Frank S. Arnold -- Methods and metaphors in capital theory / Peter Lewin -- Ludwig Von Mises on inflation and expectations / Joseph T. Salerno -- The influence of Frederic Bastiat / Murray N. Rothbard -- Sciences of political lies, or governments and markets of ideas / Reuven Brenner -- The objectivity of scholarship and the ideal of the university / Don Lavoie -- A difficult distinction / Hans F. Sennholz -- Power, the organization of inquiry and the achievement of spontaneous order : a review essay / Warren J. Samuels -- The economics of friedrich hayek / Bruce Caldwell -- The reclamation of interwar monetary economics : a review essay of hayek and the keynesian avalanche by Brian J. McCormick / William N. Butos -- Discovery, transaction costs, and growth : essay on Douglass C. North's institutions, institutional change, and economic performance / Charles N. Steele -- Publications of Israel M. Kirzner / Israel M. Kirzne -- Preface / Peter J. Boettke, Mario J. Rizzo